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We have all relied on Wikipedia's knowledge at least a few times in our lives, no matter whether we admit it or not. After all, Wikipedia has an article on nearly every topic you can think of. In fact, it even has articles on topics you wouldn't even imagine! And they range from mildly interesting to extremely wild. So, today, let's take a trip through the list of wild Wikipedia articles and broaden our horizons on strange topics. 

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#1

38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real I personally really like Lampo (dog) It's about a dog from Italy that became famous for travelling Italy by trains all by himself.

ArtemisAndromeda , LepoRello Report

Synsepalum
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seattle has a dog that rides the bus alone from home to the doggy park and back. He has a bus card on his collar. I saw him several times when I lived there. He even knows to stop in front of the driver so his card can get scanned.

Pferdchen
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I offer you Owney, the 19th century (U.S.) postal dog. Rode the rails sleeping on bags of mail all over the lower 48 and also made it to Canada. Was subsequently taken on a tour of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. He is on display at the U.S. Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owney_(dog)

Sara Rizzi
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s in campiglia marittina, a small town Just next to the one where my mom lives! I’ve seeb the statue and my dog was upset at it lol But didn’t know the story behind it

𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This needs to be made into a Pixar short film. Or mini series like Olaf stories, he has adventures along the way with different characters and gets into sticky situations

Bobert Robertson
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the USA they would arrest the doggo for fare evasion

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    #2

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The timeline of Irish inventions 

    There’s a 300 year gap between the invention of whiskey and the next listed invention.

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    Donkey boi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, well... We were busy. Doing err... Product quality checks. Nah, in all seriousness though; Shortly after the invention of Whiskey, the black death hit Ireland, which (may or may not have) contributed to the slow decline of Norman Rule, causing a lot of them to marry into Irish ruling classes, resulting in Ireland learning how to rule itself while still not fully ruling itself without the influence from the Normans. By the time we think we had it figured out, Henry VIII decided that they (England) should have another go at Ireland. So, we had a lot of wars. By the time things had settled down in was now the 17th Century, and we were bored so decided to invent chemistry as we know it today (Bye bye alchemists!).

    A Nelson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do love your history explanation. But I need to point out that the very next thing invented after whiskey was not chemistry but actually Irish road bowling. Source: Wikipedia 😂 l🤣

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    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the family guy meme in real life

    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whiskey takes time to mature. ;-)

    Meldred Jay
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Grandma used to say, "The Irish we're poised to take over the world, so God invented whiskey to slow us down."

    Robert Millar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, you need time to perfect it, don't you?

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    #3

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real There's a wikipedia page on the human race.

    That's not weird. The weird part is that, per Wikipedia style guidelines, it's written in the third person, which, in context, makes the whole thing sound like it was written by aliens.

    Notmiefault , Jimmy Chan Report

    DRMAGDN
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Humans' advanced technology has enabled them to spread to all the continents of the globe as well as to outer space, and to command profound influence on the biosphere and environment." Human Race - Wikipedia >>> Sounds like a game of Sid Meier's Civilization.

    sara fulmer
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As an Anthropologist I never knew this existed, never thought to look. As a morbid person I find this wonderfully dystopian.

    3 Trash Pandas (She/They)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just Read through it, it totally feels like it’s written by aliens

    MissMePhoenix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just checked it out for myself, it does indeed feel like it was written by aliens lol

    Stephanie Barr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's probably written for the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" but no one wants to admit it.

    Cecil
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for this! It is alienish

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    As probably everyone knows, Wikipedia is a non-profit multilingual online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The page uses the "wisdom of crowds" principle, where it’s believed that large groups of people are collectively smarter than individual experts. So, Wikipedia relies on volunteers to improve the quality and accuracy of the pages over time and on writers to back up factual statements with valid sources.

    #4

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real A real life Forrest Gump. Made one clueless financial decision after another and kept getting richer. Was fooled into shipping "coal to Newcastle" (where the saying came from) but made a serious profit because it arrived right before a miner's strike.

    Got tired of his wife and told people she died. When they visited and saw her walking around the house, he just said that was her ghost.

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    Pedantic Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Timothy Dexter, poorly educated but got rich but wasn't liked by the rest of them because of his lack of education. He made money from ventures that others thought foolish, but he still made the money.

    The Original Bruno
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The kicker is they suggested investments to f**k with him, and he made a ton of money on them all. Bedwarmers to the West Indies? They ended up selling as molasses ladles. Mittens to the tropics? Asian traders bought them and took them to Siberia.

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    Rebelliousslug
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just telling people it’s her ghost is wild. That line alone seems to make it worth the read.

    Janos Schumacher
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read his book some time. "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones". Terrible, terrible, grammar and spelling.

    laura lee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Goes to show, you can have money or you can have humanity, but never the twain.

    Andrew Read
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds bit like Bertie Wooster.

    #5

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Christopher Lee's Life.

    GeneralDefenestrates , movie-screencaps Report

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We he was an elite commando in WW2 operating deep behind Nazi lines. That is why when they filmed LOTR and Peter Jackson told him when he character gets stabed from behind to gasp and fall forward and he told Jackson that wasnt accurate how someone dies when stabbed through the lungs from behind because he knew was it was first hand (I mean he did kill Nazis)

    laura lee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh back in the day when we all knew nazis were bad

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    Gibberint Dark
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Christopher Lee was Ian Fleming's cousin... Fleming is believed to have based his creation James Bond on his cousin Christopher Lee

    Chris Landrum
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there is a meme with all the roles he had and he played some famous characters

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    #6

    List of unusual deaths. This page catalogs instances throughout history where individuals have met their demise in bizarre, unexpected, or seemingly improbable ways. From historical figures to ordinary people, the list includes deaths resulting from strange accidents, curious circumstances, and sometimes even tragicomic events. Some entries may seem like they're straight out of fiction, but they are based on documented accounts and historical records. It's a fascinating, albeit morbid, exploration of the unpredictable nature of life and the strange ways in which it can end.

    Pauloc99 Report

    Marnie
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Worth a read. Just one example to tickle your curiosity: "Draco of Athens: The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece."

    OneHappyPuppy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I quite enjoyed the Darwin awards website, don't know if it's still there

    Marie Dahme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there was a TV show 20 years ago that had stuff like this too called 1000 ways to Die. Really wild stuff

    Mikolaj
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one else thinking about the show and book 1000 ways to die?

    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I know where Mr. Ballen gets his stories! He's covered a LOT of the deaths on this list. It was interesting to scan through it and see that I had heard of most of them from the year 2000 to present.

    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this one. Happened in my city. So tragic: "Abigail Taylor, June 2007, The six-year-old girl from Edina, Minnesota died from medical complications as a result of her evisceration caused by powerful suction from a pool drain at the Minneapolis Golf Club."

    pp horrendous
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i love this one i was just looking at it earlier today

    Synsepalum
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just read every single death on that list, except the animal ones.

    Coolwhip
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if the show "1000 ways to die" got their references from this page.

    Coolwhip
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, this reminded me of a song I would like to sing to you guys... "Set fire to your hair, Poke a stick at a grizzly bear, eat medicine that's out of date, use your private parts as piranha bait. Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die, dumb ways to die-ie-ie, so many dumb ways to die " thank you. I'm sure some these aren't dumb but it just reminded me of that song.

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    Yet, the editing isn’t as simple as it sounds. There are some rules to abide by if you want to make some edits to the encyclopedia. For instance, not putting in fake information, avoiding opinions, and sticking to valid facts. To make sure these rules are implemented, Wikipedia administrators sometimes protect certain pages from direct editing if they believe they can be subjected to online vandalism

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    The Wiki administrators can usually identify the IP address and rough location of people editing articles, letting them spot suspicious behavior patterns. So, if a person gets caught misbehaving, their account can be suspended, even if the person isn’t identified.

    #7

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The Unkillable Soldier. Wiki’s first paragraph really says all you need to know about him. 

    ThePurgingLutheran , Specna Arms Report

    #8

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The names of traditional Scottish foods are wild. I was first introduced to this page by someone who was playing "Scottish dish or STD?" >Cullen skink >Collops >Festy c**k.

    gambalore , Nestor Correa Mayo Report

    OneHappyPuppy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So you really didn't mention c**k-a-leekie soup?

    Adrian
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently we're not allowed to use the name of a male chicken here as it pertains to cuisine. Grow up BP...

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    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Och. Ye sassanachs no gotta clue!

    dan martyr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cullen skink is fecking delicious. Smoked fish, potatoes, at least 1kg of slow cooked onions and milk. Gorgeous

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    #9

    There's an operating system called TempleOS that's created by a sole programmer called Terry A. Davis.

    it's nuts because not only he developed an operating system, which is incredibly hard to do especially for one person, but he even created his own compiler, kernel, and a programming language to go with it.

    most crazy part was that Terry has schizophrenia and had visions of God, which lead him to make an operating system that's supposed to act as the Third Temple. the OS runs on 16-colour display and 640x480 resolution "as God intended".

    also on TempleOS there's a random text generator that is supposed to be God directly communicating to you.

    RixTart Report

    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure it was terribly successful, but if you're interested in stuff like that, read about Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds. Stallman created his own version of Unix, GNU. And Torvalds created Linux. For a very long time Torvalds had the final say on everything that went into the Linux kernel. He is known for being very sweary and not suffering fools gladly!

    Michelle
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Met Linus in an elevator in Vegas. Told him I really wanted to use RedHat, but kept hearing it doesn’t play well with others, esp. peripherals. He said: Dammit, I keep hearing that too! Here (hands me card), email me and I’ll send you the latest stable version, and you write me back and tell me when (stuff) doesn’t work. He was serious about me reporting back, because when I didn’t (in a short period), he wrote me and asked if I found what was broke yet.

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    Bobby
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An OS is actually relatively simple. A good OS without security threats everywhere and a UI on the otherhand...

    90HD
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a really fascinating story of one man's battle with schizophrenia. If it hadn't been for that he could have been the next Steve Jobs.

    Laura Williams
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Schizophrenia can have genius IQs. Watch a beautiful mind.

    laura lee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm cool. I'm just waiting for our robot overlords to take over. Should be any day now

    Jack Quinn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is giving off a sub-genious vibe

    David R.
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If TempleOS starts texting about Time Cube I'm gonna freak out

    Floeckchen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg?si=G9ahZGi-eSDdOzEw for more information

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    Still, even with all these rules and protections, there have been many times when Wikipedia had some funny or even harmful mistakes in its articles. 

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    For example, it was written that David Beckham was a Chinese goalkeeper back in the 18th century or that The Duchess of Cornwall's Christian name is Cow-miller. Also, there have been many blunders reporting the death of a very alive person. 

    And even though some of you might say that some of the articles in this list should be in the blunders list instead of this one, you would be mistaken. Yes, we agree that some of them sound quite unbelievable, but they’re true! 

    So, upvote the articles you think are the wildest! And maybe you know some we haven’t put in here? Share them with us in the comments! 

    #10

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Unusual articles is an absolute goldmine.

    jhemsley99 , Ylanite Koppens Report

    Susan Robinson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I know what I am going to look at when I am tired of looking at YouTube, etc. 😊

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    #11

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real My favorite one is perhaps the one about Nils Olav. It's my favorite Wikipedia article ever.

    HelpfulDeparture , Lee Carson Report

    arthbach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's only 'Nils Olav' to his friends. To everyone else, he is Major General Sir Nils Olav III.

    ArodTheHorrible
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was sure BP whiffed on the picture again. Spoiler... they didn't.

    Min
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is fantastic.

    M O'Connell
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love when a traditionally stuffy and formal organization goes all-in on something fun and silly.

    #12

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The talk page for the article on Saladin has been a war between Arab, Turk, and Kurd nationalists arguing over his ethnicity since Wikipedia started.

    *checks*

    Yup. Still going on. The simple seven word sentence that he was most likely Kurdish is backed by 5 whole citations just because the article for years was defined by flame and edit wars over the topic.

    Lord0fHats , Oleksandr P Report

    David
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was a Kurd, but Arabs look down on Kurds and racially oppressed them for centuries, and because Saladin was a great leader of Egypt and led huge Arab armies against the Europeans, he became venerated in the Arab world. But now many arabs are trying to revise history to deny he was a Kurd because of those racial issues.

    Gavin Johnson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Add into the mix that the Kurds never used to be defined by the nation they are born in or live in, they are a tribe who live across the whole region, they’ve been persecuted for this since forever.

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    Michael Largey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some say he was a Kurd - others that he was a Whey.

    Pferdchen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Coincidentally, I've been reading a bit about him recently. Turns out he was highly thought of for his relatively humane recapturing of Jerusalem in 1187, especially when contrasted to the brutal conquest of Jerusalem 88 years earlier during the 1st Crusades.

    Astar_ALT
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's so many edits on the page I'm crying

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    #13

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The wikipedia page titled, "Timeline of the Far Future", is kind of mind-blowing. It describes the year 10^10^10^56th: "Around this vast timeframe, quantum tunnelling in any isolated patch of the universe could generate new inflationary events, resulting in new Big Bangs giving birth to new universes.".

    Some_Wastelander , Pixabay Report

    Otto Katz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dying doesn't make me sad, or worried. The earth doesn't make me sad. The heat death of the universe, now, that makes me sad!

    #14

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Former Major League Baseball(MLB) Player Rube Waddell.

    Here is the first paragraph under the **Early baseball career** heading.

    **"Waddell's career wound through a number of teams. He was notably unpredictable; early in his career, he once left in the middle of a game to go fishing. He also had a longstanding fascination with fire trucks and ran off the field to chase after them during games on multiple occasions. He would disappear for months at a time during the offseason, and it was not known where he went until it was discovered that he was wrestling alligators in a circus. He was easily distracted by opposing fans who held up puppies, which caused him to run over to play with them, and shiny objects, which seemed to put him in a trance. An alcoholic for much of his short life, he reportedly spent his entire first signing bonus on a drinking binge; as a pun of the baseball term "southpaw" denoting a left-handed pitcher, the Sporting News dubbed him a "sousepaw". His eccentric behavior led to constant battles with his managers and scuffles with bad-tempered teammates"**

    MTVChallengeFan , Pixabay Report

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sounds like he was Autistic or something similar

    Me Oh My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was thinking more along the lines of ADHD!

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    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I honestly can't blame him for the puppy thing 💙

    Susan Robinson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Undiagnosed mental illness of some kind, maybe?

    Chewie Baron
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So he was a magpie?

    Nitka Tsar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was he… mentally … different?

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    #15

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Tycho Brahe was a world renown astronomer who had gold in his mouth and died at a party because he refused to excuse himself from a conversation to go to the bathroom and relieve himself.

    bewblover305 , Hakeem James Hausley Report

    Me Oh My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He also had a gold/brass prosthetic nose because he lost his in a duel.

    Mikkel Sørensen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was the nose, and it was brass. Danish and Czech scientists proved that from a sample of his nosebone back in 2010.

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    Irishwoman abroad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that was a lengthy and informative read!

    MR
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sincerely doubt that. He's like p**s/s**t himself than simply die because of an engrossing conversation.

    Bobby
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He died 11 days after the party. It is believed by many that led to an infection that resulted in not being able to urinate. The inability to relieve himself resulted in a burst bladder. Other theories include various cancers and diseases. It's pretty well accepted that this or another bladder issue were the cause of death, after being exhumed twice to investigate

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    #16

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Cavader Synod

    A pope had the corpse of his predecessor exhumed and put on trial.

    ohdearitsrichardiii , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA Report

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was in the so called dark ages period, where they had many popes in a very short time (some mysterious deaths, and 3in one year) while dealing with an internal debate over theology, so one faction did that as part of legitimizing their undoing of all the papal edicts of that specific pope

    Me Oh My
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then they did it again with the same fellow! He was exhumed, interrogated, and put in a sack with rocks and tossed into the Tiber (I think) for his troubles.

    Ephemera Image
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um, should that be 'Cadaver Synod'?

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    #17

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real I've always been a fan of List of lists of lists.

    SchreiberBike , Suzy Hazelwood Report

    Upstaged75
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The list of legendary creatures is SO cool!

    Marnie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I really humans sometimes!

    Irishwoman abroad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my God.... I thought islands on lakes on islands on lakes was bad enough....

    The Original Bruno
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "For the Chilean town, see Lolol, Chile."

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    #18

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Ken McElroy. A man who terrorized Skidmore Missouri but could never be convicted. And by *terrorized* I mean multiple counts of theft, arson, assault, and rape. Finally the town had enough, banded together, and shot him in broad daylight. No one talked to the police and no one was ever charged for his murder. Here is a small Wikipedia excerpt to let you know what kind of monster he was: > McElroy fathered more than 10 children with different women. He met his last wife, Trena McCloud (1957–2012), when she was 12 years old and in eighth grade and he was 35. He raped McCloud repeatedly. McCloud's parents initially opposed the relationship, but after McElroy burned their house down and shot the family dog, they begrudgingly agreed to the marriage. She became pregnant when she was fourteen, dropped out of school in the ninth grade, and went to live with McElroy and his second wife Alice.

    TheTrub , cottonbro studio Report

    Blue Bunny of Happiness
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t think I have the words to describe McElroy, certainly not ones that are BP approved!

    MissMePhoenix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The town did the world a favor when they took this guy out.

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    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm surprised they only shot him. Seems like an awfully quick way for a monster like that to go out...

    Sweaterpants Mandles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to dig him up and shoot him some more.

    James Howell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    KARMA!!!! Was served....He /it was a perverse individual. I live, Thank God, in a metro area of Missouri, with that said, go to a rural area and it's like stepping into another century..my experience...

    Deeelite
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trena ended up defending him and saying he was "misunderstood" in an article or interview - forgot which. Crazy.

    gilded panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d say something but BP might an me for the language

    Sven Grammersdorf
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If he did all those things, why wouldn't the juries convict him?

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    #19

    The 1972 Iran blizzard dropped 26 feet of snow in 6 days. It buried at least 4,000 people, and some villages were completely wiped out with no survivors.

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    Marnie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    26 FEET?! That's over 4 feet per day! (That's 7.9 meters in 6 days for our non-American friends.) Actually, the fact that it snows in Iran is almost as much of a shock to me. (Showing my deep and abiding ignorance here.) And how tragic - entire villages.

    Kate
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, the thing about deserts in the winter is that there is NOTHING to hold onto the sun's heat. It freezes. What's rare in some places, like Iran, is for the weather to actually kick up a storm like that.

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    #20

    Great Molasses Flood

    I didn't think it was real.

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    Charles Greenough
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a plaque commemorating it in Boston's North End. It's quite the story!

    Ken Beattie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Bundaberg Rum fire was another one that was crazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Bundaberg_distillery_fire Not mentioned in the wiki article directly but huge amount of Rum ran down the streets into the rivers.

    Andy Frobig
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know what surprises me more: when people believe things that aren't true, or when they don't believe things that are. I've seen several posts about Europeans thinking yellow school buses in the US were fake until they visited there, or young people thinking phone booths only existed in movies because they'd never seen one in person. Do people think swords and chariots weren't real?

    3 Trash Pandas (She/They)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you know about this because you read half the I Survived series in 6th grade

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    #21

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The Gombe Chimpanzee War. Pretty sure it's the only known war to be fought between non-humans.

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    Kate
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, the emus were fighting humans. Humans are not considered non-humans.

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    Ken Beattie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe there have been any number of insect wars too. Two different species of ants is a common one.

    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If this sparks an interest in you, I highly recommend "Chimp Empire" - a documentary on Netflix. Absolutely amazing footage. (I don't know how they got it. They must have hired an insider in the chimp community.)

    FaceTime Audio
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Iirc, chimps battle other chimp groups all the time. They're just as warlike as humans, with comparable homicide rates to some human societies.

    Chewie Baron
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ants and termites?

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    #22

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Operation Snow White, not because its Wikipedia is unusual or anything, but because THIS WHOLE THING EVEN F*****G HAPPENED.

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    Libstak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is wild. L Ron Hubbard is an amazing fiction writer. I say this to point out how utterly capable he is of convincing people of complete and utter b******t. He took ancient spiritual and widely known esoteric teachings from the Freemasons, Rosicrucian, Gnostic and others and used them as the exotic skeleton of an entirely new belief based on aliens, as was so popular in his time. The weave between accepted wisdom teachings and his "new" teaching was utterly masterful. It fooled millions who had no prior spiritual understanding into believing because the bare bones were so liberally caked in sociologically accepted norms in civilised thought. Then bang, random Xeno alien God thrown in to the mix for those who had already invested so much money and time they were primed to have to believe it or admit they fell for the ultimate con...no one wants to admit they are that foolish.

    MR
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He really should be remembered for proving that all religions are simply cults surrounded by a made up mythology. If people can be that easily taken in by something so impossibly stupid, it's clear that the same can be said of virtually all religious organizations. Believe what you want, no one can truly know, but anyone who organizes in an effort to convince others they know the truth are truly vile people.

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    Jack Lantern
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isaac Asimov used to tell stories at conventions about L Ron. One of them was the time LR called up Isaac at 3am asking if he could hide out at his place for a few weeks because LR's ex and her lawyer were in town looking for him to collect on back alimony.

    Octavia Hansen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "If you really wanna make a million bucks -- start your own religion."

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    #23

    The Erfort Latrine Disaster comes to mind.

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    Heleen the Feline Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held a Hoftag (informal assembly) in the cathedral provostry (in Erfurt). On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement. "

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's also a story of this happening to a bunch of school girls when the floor of an outdoor latrine collapsed.

    Caessy Meschar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we learned that at school. i come from thuringia and erfurt is the capital of the free state of thuringia.

    #24

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The “My Way Killings”, where people in karaoke bars would get killed for singing My Way by Frank Sinatra wrong. Talking about gatekeeping in music.

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    Donkey boi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The article OP linked LITERALLY says it's because it was a popular song in a high violence location/situation, it says nothing about them being killed for singing the song wrong. I did think that this one was justified though: In August 2007, a karaoke singer in Seattle, Washington, was attacked by a woman who wanted him to stop singing Coldplay's "Yellow".

    Sara Frazer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a Washingtonian who lives about 40 minutes south of Seattle and despises Coldplay, yes, this seems fair

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    #25

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The Đorđe Martinović incident where a man indirectly caused the collapse of a country in a most unusual manner.

    dawidowmaka , KoolShooters Report

    Sara Frazer
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow that was not what I was expecting at all

    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Click the link! Click the link! You won't be sorry.

    Sardonyx_3
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Note: The article is quite entertaining but Not Safe For Work.

    Floeckchen
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was almost a Gavrilo Princip level of historic dice roll...

    #26

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Honestly any mentioned in the Citation Needed or Two of These People are Lying gameshow youtube series. Jack Churchill, the madman with a bow and a claymore in WW2; Julie d'Aubigny, the 14 year old bisexual girl winning illegal duels and burning down convents pre-french revolution; the Ice Block Expedition, Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel tower (twice). Humanity's been up to some crazy s**t.

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    Insono
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://youtu.be/r0XFug0yc2A?si=au3aUSZIK_RCiuUV Very good watch on the whole story of Julie dAubigny!

    Andrew Bridge
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These two are definitely worth a watch, again and again

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    #27

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Great Emu War, Toilet Paper Orientation, and yes this is not b******t but it is the List of Sexually Active Popes.

    L3go07 , Vie Studio Report

    spicy (she/he/they)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i once saw something along the lines of “if i had a nickel for every time a pope died during sex i’d have two, which isn’t much but weird it happened twice”

    #28

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Corbin Bleu. The page itself isn't crazy since he's just an actor who appeared in the High School Musical movies. However his page has been translated into over 200 different language by one guy in Saudi Arabic which makes it one of the most translated biographies on Wikipedia.

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    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As opposed to that baseball player who chased firetrucks, THIS might be a good example of someone with "Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus". Someone is quite the fan!

    MissMePhoenix
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean he's cute, but is he "translate his Wikipedia page into 200 languages" cute? Lmao

    Adrian
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this has exactly what to do with the dictionary definition of dictionary?

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    #29

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real It's an internal page, but I still find it super funny. Do NOT bite the developers.

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    Griffy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got a laugh out of this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes

    Astar_ALT
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh god they Wikipedia devs know THEY KNOW

    #30

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Every word under the rules section of this article. It has to be a joke.

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    James016
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Typical village way of life in England. I love that you get docked a point for each remaining sober person on your team

    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like the drinking-game equivalent of that most insane of all games: Cribbage.

    Awesome At Being Autistic
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's just a shame that Terry Pratchett didn't use this in one of his books.

    Tom Brincefield
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He couldn't. Fiction has to be believable. Reality can be crazy.

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    dan martyr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve suggested to my local that we revive this. Will let you know how it goes….

    Kim Kermes
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll stick with Yahtzee for shots.

    Tucker Cahooter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kept hearing John Clarke's ("farnarkeling") voice when reading that; all it needed was Dave Sorensen

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    #31

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real How has the Battle of Castle Itter not been mentioned? This should have been a movie by now!

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    #32

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real Tarrare, a Frenchman who would eat huge amounts of anything.

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    James016
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    1 year ago

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    Laura Williams
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was interesting, gross but interesting. They could figure out what made him that way because of the smell.

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    #33

    Always did like the pig war.

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    Marnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like "The Umbrella Incident" - the simple umbrella incident that ultimately took down my marriage.

    Anikulapo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost downvoted this due to the lack of blood-thirsty, Kalashnikov-toting pigs.

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    #34

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real I think the "coding" approach to addiction treatment is pretty wild.

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    ArodTheHorrible
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great... scare them right into using a different substance to deal with their fear

    Jrog
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's also notoriously ineffective.

    Sweaterpants Mandles
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Torture or straight up abuse. Either is fair.

    Awesome At Being Autistic
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, "created by a psychiatrist," this was invented by someone who graduated from medical school. Good grief.

    #35

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The Wikipedia page on the Honda Ridgeline is surprisingly detailed compared to other comparable vehicles.

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    Tucker Cahooter
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would be sorely tempted to edit that article and remove everything except the first sentence

    Anakinobi
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe one of the wikipedia founders has one?

    M O'Connell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you scroll to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, there is an external link to another article explaining who authored the page.

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    #37

    38 Wikipedia Pages That Are So Wild People Online Can’t Believe That They’re Real The page for "familial natural short sleep". Essentially, a small portion of the population (including Barak Obama, Musk, Mozart, Tesla, etc.) is just better than the rest of us. Not a long page as not a lot of research is being done on the topic, so have a read.

    fluffyduffdylan , Andrea Piacquadio Report

    Alicia M
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have to have this bc I sleep far less than anyone I know, and I feel fine. This has been going on for most of my life.

    Synsepalum
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huh, I think I have that. I do best off around 5 hours of sleep. If I sleep more, I get a sleep hangover.

    #38

    George Remus was a member of organized crime who referred to himself in the first person and his wikipedia page is written in that style.

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    Tucker Cahooter
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Referring to yourself in the first person is using the word "I", which of course everyone does. Tucker thinks this poster doesn't know what third person means

    Kate
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But... most of us refer to ourselves in the first person. And... no, that article is in third person.

    Sven Grammersdorf
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All Wikipedia articles are written like that. Am I missing something?

    Rosalind Heim
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Third person. And I remember this because he was a character on Boardwalk Empire

    Anikulapo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of Terry in Brooklyn 99. Except it’s cool when he does it.

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